They don't care much about Good or Evil, and laws are at best a suggestion. They may be good or evil-aligned, but only by accident or because it will earn them more food. Expect them to be Extreme Omnivore, but not always.

Nothing can convince them not to eat everything they can reach... except maybe another One-Track-Minded Hunger character. Most of the time, it's NOT a good idea to stand between them and their food unless you're a badass.

One Piece's Luffy only thinks about one thing outside fights and that is food.

Toriko's Neo lives and breathes the trope. It's only goal in existence is to revive through Acacia's Full Course ( the Full Course of the World) and devour the world. Since the manga is about food, it essentially speaks for itself.

Venom's Ultimate counterpart was created to be a protoplasmic cure for cancer, but in its incomplete, weaponized state it is ravenously hungry for flesh and drives its hosts to devour anything and anyone around it.

Played with horrifyingly in the first arc of Hellblazer when John Constantine has to stop Memnoth, a Hunger demon which is loose in New York. Said demon kills his victims by cursing them with an insatiable hunger for a non-food item, usually something valuable that the person covets, such as jewels, rare comics, etc. In one case, he makes a bodybuilder eats his own ARM in an attempt to sate his hunger. If the victim doesnt suffocate from trying to swallow solid items, they die when their bodies consume themselves from Memnoths possession.

Film

The alien slugs in Slither can turn people into this. It's implied the first woman it infects eats her own baby.

Pizza, The Hut from the movie Space Balls is always eating. And when locked in his car, he eats himself to death

Kaa for Disney's adaptation of The Jungle Book seems to apply. He's rather affable and, unlike Shere Khan, not a wrathful active villain (one episode of Jungle Cubs even shown him to be an outright Friend to All Living Things the rare time he is full) but he is constantly setting his hypnotic eyes on a new morsel, making him a danger to the protagonists.

Litterature

In Animorphs, the Taxxons have an endless hunger that drives them to eat their own wounded (as well as anything else they can get their mouths on). Many Taxxons willingly became Controllers because being part of the Yeerks' forces meant they would have the power to hunt and eat more prey. Their hunger is so powerful that not even the Yeerks can stop it. The Yeerk that would become Visser Three refused to become a Taxxon Controller because he didn't want to live with that hunger.

There's a brief bit in one of the Discworld novels which shows the POV of a shark, whose entire mentality comes down to "=", i.e. "sense it = eat it". (It's brief, because the "it" it senses is Rincewind's feet, and the Luggage follows a similar equation with regards to anything that threatens its master...)

The Hungry Tiger from the Land of Oz books. He is always hungry, no matter how much he eats, and longs to eat a "fat baby," though he never would because his conscience will not allow him to do so.

Ungoliant from The Silmarillion is a spider-like Eldritch Abomination who is all about hunger and eating stuff. She teamed up with Morgoth because she was hungry and he offered her to suck the Two Trees dry. Later she betrayed Morgoth because she was still hungry and wanted to eat the Silmarils. Morgoth had to call his devil goon squad to stop her from eating these artifacts, since she was already overpowering him. Ungoliant isn't around anymore because she eventually ate herself to death.

Supplement REF5 Lords of Darkness. One opponent the PCs can encounter is Rugen Phimister, a ghoul who is always hungry and always eating.

Dark Sun setting. The Fael are undead creatures who never quenched their need for material consumption in life. In death, they're condemned to be always hungry and always searching out food to eat. Worse yet, the more they eat the hungrier they get, so no matter how much they eat they're never satisfied.

Famine Spirit is a corporeal undead that doesn't seem to have the ability to stop eating.

The Fiendwurm is an earthworm that has a rift to the Abyss in its stomach and in constant pain. Eating reduces the pain so it seeks to eat as much as it can.

In Nomine. Haagenti is the Demon Prince of Gluttony. He spends all his time either eating or getting more food, and anyone around him is at risk of becoming his next meal.

In the play of Metamorphoses, Ceres curses Erysichthon with an insatiable hunger. He eats everything he can. Sells his possessions and then tries to sell his own mother for food, and then eventually eats himself.

Video Games

The demon Gorgoth in Arcanum is cursed with insatiable hunger, and was banished to the Void when he chowed down on a halfling village and no one could think of anything better to do with him. Recruiting him into your party and keeping him loyal requires you to keep him fed with a steady supply of lizard carcasses.

In Commander Keen the Dopefish - the second dumbest creature in the universe - has a thought process that goes, "Swim swim hungry. Swim swim hungry."

Quina of Final Fantasy IX is always on the lookout for new food to try and will eat, or express interest in eating, anything, including at one point, a rock.

The Heartless in Kingdom Hearts act all out of instict, and their instinct is to get hearts to eat. Nothing more.

Kirby is seen as a hero, and yet more than once he saved the world by accident, looking for a cake or something similar.

Kog'maw, a League of Legends champion, attack only using his gastric acid. It's stated he spit acid on stuff because he can't swallow them whole (yet), meaning anyone he spits on is a potential breakfast. And because it's a baby, he doesn't even understand good and evil.

Same with Cho'Gath, except that Cho actually is Chaotic Evil, too. It is an Eldritch Abomination in constant hunger, devouring anything coming too close to its claws. And its main objective is to bring its species to join the feast.

The Spirit Eater Curse from Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer is built around this trope. The Spirit Eater is a horrific demi-godlike entity that turns the host into an insatiable devourer of spirits, fey, and the dark energy of the undead. The curse becomes so strong that it eventually consumes the soul of the host; destroying the very essence of their existence and leaving only an empty corpse behind. The eater has consumed countless spirits for generations, and the Player Character can use it For the Evulz. It devours all life in the Forgotten Realms and a couple other planes. The gods band together to fight it and it literally eats half of them before they bring it down. (It's even implied that the Betrayer didn't truly die from the wrath of a dozen gods.)

An ironic thing about it is that Myrkul, the god who created the curse can be eaten by it. D&D gods are virtually unkillable, they just partially fade away. The spirit eater completely destroyed them.

The Gobblers from Wizard 101 definitely apply. They are Extreme Omnivores that continue to eat buildings even after they are fed a potion that is suppose to both magically and chemically trigger the gag reflex.

Captain Planet and the Planeteers did this in an episode where a kid somehow got cloned. The clones were all ravenously hungry and the more they ate, the more they multiplied. There were many repeated "we are hungry" cries while the Planeteers worked to undo it. It was possibly an overpopulation lesson.

The Tasmanian Devil. Many episodes open with a description of him which includes a long list of animals he eats, ending with "especially rabbits", or on one ocassion, wild duck.

Sylvester may also qualify. Most of his villainous antics abide to setting on eating Tweety or some other small animal. Outside those moments, he is either forced into a chase by a human owner or acts as a non-provocative protagonist.

As would Wile E. Coyote—frankly, any animal protagonist in an animated cartoon would probably qualify.

The Eruptodon from Dragons: Riders of Berk is a Titan-wing Boulder-class dragon that must constantly feed, its primary diet being volcanic lava. If it goes without feeding for very long, it becomes insatiable until it dies of starvation.

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